Workflow Automation

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onMay 7, 2026

ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit

ChatGPT no longer waits for your prompts. OpenAI just shipped scheduled automation—and immediately throttled it to 10 tasks per user.

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Artur Markus

onApril 26, 2026

Zapier Agents Hit General Availability with Multi-Step Memory—All Five Major Workflow Platforms Ship Agent Builders in Single Quarter

Five competitors shipping the same feature within 90 days isn’t a product launch—it’s an industry admitting that rule-based…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 16, 2026

University of Montreal Tests AI Against 100,000 Humans on Creativity—GPT-4 Beats 72% But Top 10% Still Win

GPT-4 now outperforms the average human on standardized creativity tests. But before you fire your creative team, consider this: when…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 7, 2026

31 Companies Hit Unicorn Status in January 2026—Highest Monthly Count Since June 2022, Adding $58.5B in Valuation

The funding winter ended two months ago and most of the industry missed it. Fifty-four companies crossed the billion-dollar threshold in…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 28, 2026

UiPath Acquires WorkFusion to Build Agentic AI Platform for Financial Crime Compliance—Expands Beyond Traditional RPA Into Autonomous Workflow Intelligence

UiPath just spent hundreds of millions to make its core product obsolete. The February 2026 WorkFusion acquisition marks the moment the RPA…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 21, 2026

UiPath Screen Agent Hits 53.6% on OSWorld Benchmark—First Enterprise RPA Tool to Claim #1 Ranking for Agentic Automation

UiPath just outperformed OpenAI’s own agents on the most rigorous test of autonomous computer operation—and they did it by swapping…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 17, 2026

Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol: Open Standard Backed by Shopify, Walmart, Visa, and Mastercard Enables AI Agents to Execute Purchases Across Any Retailer Without Custom Integrations

Six days ago, Google announced the infrastructure layer that makes AI-powered shopping actually work at scale—and they convinced Visa,…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 12, 2026

The Home Depot Deploys Thousands of Agentic AI Agents Across Stores in Days—Not Months—As Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Turns Retail Workflow Automation Into a Race Against Obsolescence

The Home Depot just compressed an 18-month enterprise AI rollout into days. On January 11, 2026, the company deployed autonomous AI agents to…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 4, 2026

The Agent Skills Standard: Why Anthropic’s December 2025 Open Format Is Creating the First True Portability Crisis for Workflow Automation—And Exposing Every Vendor’s Integration Trap

Anthropic just handed every workflow automation vendor an existential crisis wrapped in an open-source gift, and most enterprises…

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Artur Markus

onNovember 18, 2025

The Rise of Agentic AI in Productivity Workflows: From Task Automation to Semi-Autonomous Collaboration

What if I told you that tomorrow’s most valuable teammate won’t ever ask for a coffee break, but it will organize your next project—and…

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